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- Tags: Economy
Endor Iron Works Ledger, 1864-1868
4/11, Payroll: $426.00, Expenses: $2986.93, Sales: 10036 lbs. pig iron at $.50/lb ($5018.00)
4/30, Payroll: $967.35, Expenses: $4793.37
5/11, Payroll: $546.67, Expenses: $225.00, Sales: 43598 lbs ($21,799.00)
5/17, Payroll: $1357.11, Expenses:…
Tags: Economy, Home Front
Ebenezer Emmons, Map of the Deep River Coal Field, 1856
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David Anderson & Co., "Eagle Foundry," Fayetteville Observer, March 23, 1863
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Charles T. Jackson, Geological Map of Deep River Coal Field: From Recent Surveys, September 1853
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"What Shall the South Do?," Wilmington Daily Herald, December 5, 1859
The chief actor in the affair at Harper's Ferry has expiated his crime upon the gallows. Old Brown has been hanged. What will be the result of this enforcement of the law? Will the effect be salutary upon the minds of the Northern people? Have we any…
"Seventy-Five Negroes Wanted," Raleigh Register, March 21, 1861
Seventy-Five Negroes Wanted. I desire to purchase from fifty to seventy fiveLikely Young Negroes, of both sexes, ranging from eight to thirty years old--such as will be saleable in the Southern Market. No unsound negro wanted. I will pay Richmond…
Tags: Economy, Slavery/Slaves
"North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company," Raleigh Register, March 21, 1861
This company takes risks upon all healthy lives between the ages of 14 and 60 years--for one year, for seven years, or for life--the assurers for life participating in the profits of the Company. Slaves between the ages of 10 and 60 years, are…
Tags: Economy, Slavery/Slaves
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Josephus Daniels, 1862-1948
Josephus Daniels (1862-1848) was the influential editor of the Raleigh News and Observer during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He…